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Python Python Collections (Retired) Lists Redux Disemvoweled

Saloni Gandhi
Saloni Gandhi
1,531 Points
Posted by Saloni Gandhi
Saloni Gandhi
1,531 Points

devowel.py .. i am getting a logical error- a weird output

state_names=['Newyork','Massachusetts','California'] output=[] vowels=list('aeiou')

for something in state_names: new_statelist=list(something.lower())

for thing in vowels:
    while True:
        try:
            state_names.remove(thing)
        except:
            break
output.append(''.join(new_statelist).capitalize())

print output print new_statelist

//logical error - weird output someone plz help me out

1 Answer

Gavin Ralston
Gavin Ralston
28,770 Points
Gavin Ralston
Gavin Ralston
28,770 Points

In your try block, you're removing thing (the vowel) from the state_names list rather than the new_statelist you created to hold the list of characters.

As an aside, try using more meaningful variable names than "thing" in your for loops. "vowel in vowels" would have made it easier to spot that you were trying to remove a vowel from a list of state names, I think. Also "weird output" is not as helpful as posting the output. :)

Good luck!